Blatant Advertising in 'Articles'

mr_wonderful · **Joined:** Mon Nov 03, 2008 6:56 pm **Posts:** 515

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-1297929/Homemade-ice-cream-just-20-minutes.html

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

This sort of thing is rife in Mail articles. Look at this one for example:

Ready for my close up! Denise Richards poses in her pool (as the paparazzi just happen to drop by)

The photos' are clearly posed and the whole thing smacks of PR. The last few paragraphs' give the game away:

Quote:

The reality star recently announced that she is writing a tell-all book about her life.

'I wanted to write a heartfelt, honest book that would be a source of hope for others going through difficult times,'she says.

Denise will talk about what it's like to be a single mother in Hollywood, and the ups and downs of her career so far.

The autobiography is due to be released in 2012 through Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Today's PR plants:

Pregnant Myleene Klass talks frankly about her 18-month struggle to conceive as she poses for sultry new magazine shoot
"The full interview with Myleene appears in the November issue of SHE magazine, on sale 14 October. "

Look at me now! X Factor's Chloe Mafia is virtually unrecognisable as she has a makeUNDER for photoshoot
"The full feature on Chloe appears in this week's Now magazine, out now"

Kim Kardashian bares all again... but this time with no regrets
"The November issue of W Magazine is out on Wednesday"

Couldn't Katy make it, Russell? Brand rocks up at Despicable Me premiere with some new friends

In fact, most of the right hand column appears to be PR stuff but the ones above are the least subtle.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 2:47 pm

To be fair, although the Mail does some bad things (ripping off other journo's work, for example, and using photographs in breach of copyright) they are far from alone in this. I am afraid we are getting the press we deserve, or at least Mail-buyers are.

AOB · **Posted:** Mon Nov 08, 2010 12:49 pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic ... tride.html

Clarks is hot? (Yes, really!)No longer the preserve of toddlers and OAPs, the brand has hit its style stride

jguazu · **Joined:** Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:09 pm **Posts:** 458

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1348612/This-Morning-hits-rock-Louie-Spence-removes-hair-mens-bare-buttocks-live-This-Morning.html

And the end of this utterly bizzarre and completely pointless article (in which Daily Mail Reporter describes in tedious detail something that he saw on TV) we get this rather unsubtle plug:

Quote:

Meanwhile, Louie Spence's Showbusiness is currently airing on Sky 1 HD.

The show includes a host of new characters as well as familiar faces from the show that made him a star, such as Andrew Stone and Tricia Walsh Smith.

It's on every Wednesday at 9pm.

Also, what's the betting that if that, if the BBC had broadcast a similar piece of inane daytime tat, the headline would be more along the lines of "FURY as BBC broadcasts gays and nudity blah blah blah..."

IanC · **Joined:** Fri Jun 02, 2006 6:30 pm **Posts:** 1404

I really dont get Louie Spence.

crabcakes_windermere · **Joined:** Thu Nov 26, 2009 1:56 pm **Posts:** 2075

I don't think there's anything to get - he's just like a human firework, and needs people to look at him ALL the time.

Problem is he also happens to be gay, and thus is the Mail's take on what all gay men are probably like.

Samanfur · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 12:01 pm

Not necessarily, but he's the sort of non-threatening, flaming, comedy gay that you can see coming (cf. James Dreyfuss, Dale Winton et al), which makes DM readers feel safe. Heavens forbid that gays be presented as the sort of people who could be standing next to you and you wouldn't realise.

Andy McDandy · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 1:08 pm

Stealth Gays? :lol:

Timbo · **Posted:** Thu Jan 20, 2011 2:09 pm

Yes. You need to remember that in Mail-world gays are an exotic, sex-crazed creature and probably paedos too

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

ESPN's Erin Andrews comes back from stalking nightmare with a stunning new advert for Reebok

Blonde ambition: Erin has become the first woman to feature in the Reebok ZigTech campaign

Because all UK readers give a flying one about ESPN sportscasters.

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

Quote:

and probably paedos too

Just "probably"?

Tom_UK · **Joined:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:14 pm **Posts:** 3168

Ready-made way to slim down: How living entirely on M&S food could help you lose weight

Pretty shameless piece of PR.

Quote:

It sounds too good to be true... a supermarket ready meal range that can deliver a 10lb weight loss in four weeks – without the need for exercise.

But researchers say that the Simply Fuller Longer regime from Marks & Spencer does indeed deliver those results.

Ah, The Institute for Studies has been at work again.

Samanfur · **Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2011 8:47 am

Trampoline lift: A new procedure can fix sagging neck skin within an hour

Complete with blatant moment at the end, if the copy wasn't bad enough: The Trampoline Lift starts at £3,500, harleystreetplasticsurgery.info;

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